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What if it's not small businesses that have intrinsically very high attrition rates, but rather exploitative rents that are destroying local economic growth before it can get off the ground?

Okay so it's super late at night and no one will see this but I gotta mention some #BlackPanther related things that came to mind

- the natural nuclear reactors in Gabon: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/natures-nuclear-reactors-the-2-billion-year-old-natural-fission-reactors-in-gabon-western-africa/

- Mansa Musa I, the 14th-century Malian emperor, who spent so much gold on hajj that he inadvertently tanked the Mediterranean market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_I_of_Mali

unsung heroes of early programming: the many women who, as factory weavers, assembled programs on rope memory.

interviewers expect us to implement linked lists on whiteboards because they are fundamental, but not weave or knit programs??? idgi. https://mastodon.social/media/_gpYfKQjzGd_XcxI5mM

I had an epiphany recently when an activist on a ventilator pointed out that it wasn’t their revolution if they died because you couldn’t keep the hospitals running.

Criticising “capitalism” only gets so far: you have to slide the better version underneath it while it’s running. You have to save everybody.

Otherwise you’ll need to remind me - and then - why you thought you’d be better.

This is why I like to watch “capitalism” closely (and lift everything that works).

https://cybre.space/media/v_OgU4RgfQCpxCDSkSc

I'm training a neural network to generate new knitting patterns, in partnership with a bunch of folks at Ravelry.
This is "Mystery lace", test-knit by DataSock. https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/lazy-stupid-and-godless/3718985/426-450#442

Technology might destroy jobs, but it's capitalism that made livelihoods dependent on those jobs in the first place.

@shel

okay, two things:

one, I would love to be covered with birbs.

two, the problem here is that they're no longer in the hand. you have failed the definition, and so any analyses thereafter are irrelevant to any hand-bush-birb discussions.

so there!

#relatable

She was an angel*

* covered in unblinking eyes and on fire

me

Clarification:

English is very "The Rules Don't Matter" unless someone not white is breaking the rules, then suddenly the rules of English are VRY SRS GAIZ

android screen casting is not exactly a wild success

WikiHow: "How To Cite A Mastodon Post Without Outing Yourself As A Furry"

> have i told you about
> how nerds destroy the world
> take conspicuous consumption as a lifestyle choice and combine it with early hardware adoption
> and you have great swaths of gadgetry out of stock because they're incrementally better than the last model
> then there are landfills full of functioning electronics
> wasted time, resources, money, etc.
> the best part is these things were never really necessary

https://toot.cat/media/HZzgfuEFzATeUNhC24Y

The exchange rate is 1 bird in hand = 2 birds in bush

so you think, 2 birds in hand = 4 in bush.
So you pick up a second bird and the value of your portfolio increases...

but then, as you attempt to balance 32 birds on your shoulders, you realize the exchange rate has reversed

and you would rather watch a flock of 16 in the bush than be covered in birds

Can we stop using generic doomsday cults for bigger bads in media? it's just so... eh. like, it's super common in both speculative fiction/scifi and magic realism genres but no matter the story it always goes:

unrelated to the plot cult appears
they push some happy happism religion words and have a mac design fetish
OH NO THEY'RE DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PLOT AND ALL THAT FEELGOOD STUFF WAS A FACADE!

a numbers station that only says “420,” “69” and “nice” at random intervals

can we get a counterfeit gender into genderapi?